Today I spent my day watching rugby on the telly. And since England got a right stuffing in Ireland, I needed something else to be doing to take my mind off it. So, I did some classic displacement activity, in the form of renaming all the directories where my Billion Monkey photos are all collected. In the course of which, I came across many old favourites I’d quite forgotten about.

I like this one, for instance:

Click to get the same thing bigger. Actually I’m not sure if people making digital movies qualify as Billion Monkeys. I get back to you with a ruling on that.

But tell me this. Why do I like this photo so much? It has many things I am fond of. It has a complicated signpost. It has a roof with spikes and bobbles. It has a Billion Monkey (if Billion Monkey he be) in action. But, they are all on top of each other, and included in the photographic heap is another person, who I would have banished from the shot had been in any position to demand such a thing. Yet, I really like it. Central to my enjoyment is all the sky around the central ensemble, so no cropping. That’s it just as it emerged from the Canon S2 IS. Anyway, I like it, and I hope you people also like it. If not, photos waste little time, so no great harm done. That’s Parliament at the back, by the way.